Fairies

If You See a Faery Ring

If you see a faery ring In a field of grass,

Very lightly step around, Tip-toe as you pass,

Last night faeries frolicked there

And they're sleeping somewhere near.

If you see a tiny faery,Lying fast asleep

Shut your eyes And run away,

Do not stay to peek! Do not tell

Or you'll break a faery spell.

~~Shakespeare

A story of the origin of fairies appears in the 1906 James Barrie novella Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, an earlier version of the novel Peter Pan and Wendy. Barrie wrote "When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies." Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature. Fairies are generally portrayed as human in appearance and as having supernatural abilities such as the ability to fly, cast spells and to influence the future. Although in modern culture they are often depicted as young, sometimes winged, females of small stature, they originally were depicted much differently: tall, radiant, angelic beings. Diminutive fairies of one kind or another have been recorded for centuries, but occur alongside the human-sized beings; these have been depicted as ranging in size from very tiny up to the size of a human child. I was fascinated with fairies when I was young. When Willow and I were little girls we would build little houses for fairies at the foot of trees! Tiny little rows of twigs stuck into the ground would make perfect walls. Moss would make lovely carpet. And a leaf would make a wonderful roof. Nestled down around the roots of a tree, it would be the perfect little abode for a tiny fairy family. :) ~~info from wikipedia, pics from googleimages